Parrothead Jeff

Yes, Aviation Nation 2008 has come and gone and I’m still recovering. I seriously need to quit driving a desk so much
The performers were great as were the static displays. Communications broke down now and again with the whole volunteer gig, but I had a wonderful time overall.
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Yeah, I still miss seeing the Tomcat at airshows. I’m glad someone had a video camera for the last ever Tomcat demo.

I’m also glad someone caught the last demo I got to see on film too.
Now it’s just memories and visiting them when and where I can. The one at the March Field [...]

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You know, the ones that remind you that it don’t get much better than that? Here’s two from Nellis that reminded me of just how nice it can be to kick back on the flghtline on a cool fall/winter evening when the hustle and bustle of an airshow are done for the day [...]

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I was checking out my own blog to make sure things were working OK and looked right when I took a good look at this pic:

Yep, that’s one of the random header pics for this blog and I immediately thought about how that was one of the good times and it don’t get much better [...]

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It’s been really hot and really humid out here in Lost Wages, NV lately - the monsoon season is here. You really notice just how much it cools off when a passing thunderstorm shades everything and drops much needed water. I’ve liked thunderstorms for many years, but didn’t get to see them much [...]

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Saturday was a day of traveling for Cindy, her mom, her niece, and yours truly. Vegas may be a great place, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes you just want to get away. We loaded up into the HHR for a trip up north in search of fun and all and we surely [...]

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Some people think I’ve gone a bit overboard mounting a GPS receiver to my windshield. After my little run-in with the Nevada Highway Patrol, I don’t think so.
Here’s the reason I feel better having my Garmin reading out my speed. I’m actually going 65 M.P.H. per GPS, but I didn’t want to try [...]

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Yeah, Air Force One sure looked good on the ramp at McCarran and it was kinda hard to miss the C-17s

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Author’s note - This was all pretty much finished on Sunday, but it’s taken a while to get the pics uploaded and properly edited. I’ll try to get the video up soon.
Yeah, it was a busy weekend, but it was worth it all around :thumb: ! This is a bit of a long [...]

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So this is the New Year. 2007 is past and 2008 is still ahead - all 365 days, 22 hours, and 50 minutes of it as I write this. 2007 was a heck of a ride and I’m hoping to make 2008 my best year yet !
So much happened in 2007, both [...]

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Christmas was very good this year I think everyone likes the gifts I found for them which is always my biggest concern. Second to that is the fact that I got some seriously AWESOME stuff !
Gifts included a very nice fishing rod and reel case, fishing tool kit, a pair of [...]

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Sunday, December 23, 2007 was the last day I got to spend with my brother this year and it was a pretty darn good one
After brunch at Carl’s Jr., it was off to Boulder City for to do some shopping, but alas the shop I wanted to go to was closed for the [...]

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My brother is in town for the week and being retired Coast Guard, he can get us both on Nellis AFB ! We went on down to the Thunderbirds’ hangar, but unfortunately the intercom was broken so we couldn’t get into the gift store in the museum - it’s actually a locked closet. [...]

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OK, I’ve been a bit slow in posting - and I apologize to the loyal readers I’m sure are out there ! Aviation Nation took a whole lot out of me and I’ve been working on getting the images from the digital camera tweaked just right (rotate to level, crop to make it [...]

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Blogging has been spotty lately, but I think that’s just due to me trying to lower my caffeine intake and actually sleep . Don’t expect too much this weekend - it’s Nellis time!
Plans for this weekend include waking up in about 3.5 hours, driving up to the meeting point for volunteers, and working [...]

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ThinkGeek :: 35mm Slide & Negative Digital Converter

Take 35mm Slides or Negatives and scan them at up to 1,829 DPI for easy conversion to Jpeg or whatever digital image format strikes your fancy. This handy scanner connects with USB and comes with easy to use Windows software for editing, cropping and resizing photos.
Oh yeah, this [...]

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FOXNews.com - Eatery Owner Forced to Remove Picture of Chelsea Clinton From Window - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
New York restaurant owner Nino Selimaj is no longer voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton after getting a letter from Bill Clinton’s office demanding a photo of daughter Chelsea posing with Selimaj be [...]

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Digital Cameras: 39 Megapixel Hasselblad H3D Goes to Mark II - Gizmodo

39 Megapixels makes me drool. Add the integrated GPS for geotagging photos and I’m hooked.
Only one problem - the price, as always ! Getting my hands on this beauty would cost about three times what my car cost and it can’t [...]

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Longleat Meerkats take photos of themselves - Telegraph

Ian Turner, deputy head warden at the park, and the man whose left his camera in the enclosure while taking images for a new brochure, said he was amazed to discover the images on the digital memory card.
“They are some of the more inquisitive creatures here at Longleat [...]

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